The work commemorates the funeral procession of CHRISTIAN WILHELM (1581-1655), Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayern, in September 1655 presenting a panorama of the funeral cortege through the engravings of the separate groups of mourners, each with their names and ranks given in the letterpress captions beneath. Hollstein German XLVI, 209-248; Lipperheide Sbb4; Vinet 696.